Re: Hello, Japanese learners
- From: Phil Yff <phil.yff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:00:54 -0400
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:07:41 -1000, Bart Mathias wrote:
Phil Yff wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:12:45 GMT, Paul Blay wrote:
"Louise Bremner" <trap_for_junk_mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
<krause55-Jork@xxxxxx> wrote:
Seeing many of you not currently live in Japan, I wonder how you can
type down Japanese characters (if anyone's system is originally
non-Japanese).
Presumably you're not using a Mac--Japanese language support has been
available as an optional part of the system for... uh... a number of
years.
I myself brought home 5 years ago a whole Fujitsu
computer and still have not formatted the system yet.
Wow. A whole computer. It's probably not worth much now.
I built myself a ZX81 once (well, with help) now if I'd kept _that_
by now it might be worth about almost as much as I paid for it -
if it wasn't for inflation..
I had an old 8 bit NEC machine that I used for a decade until OS/2 came out
with a dual boot operating system. Of course OS/2 didn't stick around very
long. When I disposed of the NEC system, the monitor still performed like
it did when it came out of the box.
As long as we're reminiscing about computers (seems "off topic," but
I'll sneak it back on at the end)...
I used my Elf II with an 8-bit bus and 16-bit registers from 1978 to
1986, 0.8 decades. I thought I would upgrade in 1981 when the IBM "PC"
came out, but then I found out that what they were passing off as a
16-bit computer was just like mine, I decided I would probably never own
a PC (so far, so good).
The Elf II started out as a 256 byte [sic] computer with only a hex
keypad and three switches for input, two hex digits and one LED for
readout, but I added a character generator and a monitor and a full
keypad and brought it up to 20K (I had just finished a 64K board when I
quit using it in 1986).
One program I wrote would write a kanji or kana stroke on the monitor at
the touch of any key on the keypad, and I had it do it so that a
Japanese sentence was produced. I impressed several people with the
program, although they became somewhat less admiring when they found out
I could only write that one sentence.
Bart
My problem when I first got the NEC is that you could only type Japanese
using the hiragana keyboard layout. I'm a terrible typist in English, and
hunting and pecking on the hiragana layout was excruciating. Now I type in
Romaji (even though I have far from mastered the English keyboard), it
converts to hiragana, and then to Kanji.
Mata ato de,
Phil Yff
Phil Yff
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